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Name
  
Alan Connor

Role
  
Writer


Education
  
Wadham College, Oxford

TV shows
  
The Word

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Books
  
Two Girls, One on Each Knee: The Puzzling, Playful World of the Crossword

Sharon shannon and alan connor live at celtic colours international festival 2014


Alan Connor (born 1974) is a British writer, journalist and television presenter. First seen on Channel 4's youth entertainment programme The Word in 1995, he later appeared on The Big Breakfast and BBC Radio Five Live and was a BBC News correspondent, appearing on BBC News 24 and The Daily Politics.

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His scriptwriting credits include the comedy-drama A Young Doctor's Notebook, starring Daniel Radcliffe and Jon Hamm, the mockumentary Nigel Farage Gets His Life Back and the BBC film The Rack Pack.

Connor has worked as a writer for programmes including Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe, The Jonathan Ross Show and This Week and writes journalism for BBC News and The Guardian. He was the question editor for BBC Four's lateral thinking quiz Only Connect for series 9-12, having taken over from David J. Bodycombe at the start of series 9.

Sharon Shannon & Alan Connor | The Late Late Show | RTÉ One


Books

In 2013 Penguin published Two Girls, One on Each Knee: A History of Cryptic Crosswords. In 2014 Gotham Books published The Crossword Century: 100 Years of Witty Wordplay, Ingenious Puzzles, and Linguistic Mischief. In 2016 Penguin Books published The Joy of Quiz.

References

Alan Connor Wikipedia